Super Bowl 50 will be the first National Football League championship to happen since it was reported that much of the pro-military hoopla at football games, the honoring of troops and glorifying of wars that most people had assumed was voluntary or part of a...
Month: February 2016
Mandatory Depression Screening is A Depressing Thought
by Ron Paul | Feb 7, 2016 | Featured Articles
The United States Preventive Services Task Force recently recommended mandatory depression screening for all Americans. The task force wants to force health insurance companies to pay for the screening. Basic economics, as well as the Obamacare disaster, should have...
Ron Paul ‘The Maverick’ at University of Texas, Arlington
by Adam Dick | Feb 6, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul, the prominent libertarian communicator, has said many times that the great interest in the ideas of liberty he finds among young people on university campuses gives him reason for optimism. In fact, Paul has made it a priority to speak at universities often,...
Giving Peace Very Little Chance
by Robert Parry | Feb 6, 2016 | Featured Articles
After nearly 15 years of Mideast war – with those conflicts growing ever grimmer – you might expect that peace would be a major topic of the 2016 presidential race. Instead, there has been a mix of warmongering bluster from most candidates and some confused mutterings...
Ron Paul Says Entering Presidential Race as Libertarian Party Candidate ‘Not in the Cards’
by Adam Dick | Feb 5, 2016 | Featured Articles
In a new Fox Business interview, host Kennedy asks Ron Paul the question many people have considered the last couple days: With Paul’s son Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) having dropped out of the presidential race this week, how about the senior Paul jump into the 2016...
The Washington Post’s Interventionist Mindset
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Feb 5, 2016 | Featured Articles
If you have ever yearned for a perfect example of the interventionist mindset that undergirds the mainstream media, the Washington Post provided it last Sunday in an editorial entitled “Failure in Cuba.” The editorial could have easily been written by any member of US...
Your Perception Is Worth Big Bucks To The Military-Industrial Complex
by Chris Rossini | Feb 5, 2016 | Featured Articles
We all know how Hollywood and the crony media likes to portray the US military. It's almost always presented as this well-oiled machine, good looking people, white teeth, well-spoken, the whole nine yards. Hardly will you see how trillions of taxpayers dollars go up...
Rand Out – Victory For Hawks?
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 5, 2016 | The Liberty Report
Neocon scribblers like Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin are crowing about the demise of non-interventionism with the departure of Rand Paul from the presidential race. We are all neocons now, say Rubin and her allies in the war party. But not so fast! When have they...
German Spy Chief Says ISIS Operatives Have Infiltrated Europe Disguised As Refugees
by Tyler Durden | Feb 5, 2016 | Featured Articles
"We are in a serious situation and there is a high risk that there could be an attack. But the security agencies, the intelligence services and the police authorities are very alert and our goal is to minimize the risk as best we can.” That’s from Hans-Georg Maassen...
UN Rules Julian Assange is ‘Arbitrarily Detained’
by Paul Craig Roberts | Feb 5, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has ruled that Wikileaks’ Julian Assange has been arbitrarily detained by the “democratic” governments of Sweden and the UK and is entitled to his freedom and compensation for detention by the two “democratic”...
Judge Napolitano: Clinton Espionage Evidence is Overwhelming. Will Obama Block Prosecution?
by Adam Dick | Feb 4, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In a new video report at Fox News, former New Jersey Judge Andrew Napolitano predicts that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will “very soon” recommend the prosecution of Hillary Clinton for espionage based on her alleged reckless handling of US government...
Afghanistan Boondoggles Get Rep. Walter Jones’ Goat
by Adam Dick | Feb 3, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC), speaking Tuesday at a hearing of the US House Armed Services Committee, returned to a subject he has addressed many times — the US government’s incredible waste of money and lives in Afghanistan. Providing one example to illustrate the...
Free State Project – Is It Happening?
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 3, 2016 | The Liberty Report
Today the Free State Project announced that they have reached the threshold of 20,000 people who have pledged to move to New Hampshire and participate in what they call the greatest political migration project in US history. Is geographic proximity in a relatively...
Making the Super Bowl Super Authoritarian
by Adam Dick | Feb 2, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Downtown San Francsco 11 Days Before Super Bowl - photo: Target LibertyAfter months of preparation, national, state, and local police have rolled out a comprehensive mass surveillance effort in the San Francisco Bay Area as the Super Bowl approaches. If you happen to...
The Strange World of The State Department Spokespersons…And a Modest Suggestion
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 2, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Anyone wondering why the rest of the world sees the US administration as insane -- or worse -- need only spend a few minutes watching a daily briefing from the White House or especially the US State Department. These are not endeavors by intelligent and rational...
Delusions on Syria Prevail in Official Washington
by Philip Giraldi | Feb 2, 2016 | Featured Articles
Tulsi Gabbard is one brave Congresswoman. She has challenged her party and the president saying that it’s time for Washington to halt its “illegal, counter-productive war to overthrow the Syrian government of Assad. I don’t think Assad should be removed. If Assad is...
Breaking The Neocon Stranglehold On Washington
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 2, 2016 | The Liberty Report
No matter who occupies the US presidency, it seems the neoconservatives always occupy positions of foreign policy power. A neocon like Robert Kagan, for example, is perfectly comfortable going from a senior position in the GW Bush administration to another senior post...
Remember Kosovo?
by Justin Raimondo | Feb 1, 2016 | Featured Articles
In Pristina, the capital of the make-believe country of Kosovo, there is a street named after Bill Clinton, and a statue of Bill – done in the Socialist Realist style – towers over the main square. They also named a boulevard after George W. Bush, perhaps to hedge...
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